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Ron Hoenig

About Ron -

Ron Hoenig was active as an actor/writer in Adelaide from 1978 to 1984, performing in more than 30 plays and writing or co-writing four theatre pieces. Later, after editing and writing features for a range of publications, he became at lecturer in journalism at the University of South Australia. Since retiring in 2021 he has resumed his involvement in theatre and freelance journalism. He is currently writing a play about the Hungarian man who saved his mother’s life during the Shoah.

Articles by Ron

A tissue of truths embedded in women’s lives

Using fragile dress patterns of the 1940s and ’50s and her skills in charcoal, linocut and watercolour, Margaret Ambridge explores the embedded power in women’s lives.

Relics and Ruins reflects mother and daughter’s shared passion for painting

Honesty and trust is crucial to the relationship between mother-and-daughter artists Anna Gore and Mary-Jean Richardson, whose 2023 SALA exhibition is testimony to the power of creative collaboration and the enduring art of painting.

Shazia Shehzad Bhanji in her home studio in Adelaide. Photo: Jack Fenby / InReview

‘I want to tell stories, so I use hundreds of layers of paper to carve them’

Almost nothing is as fragile as a single sheet of paper, but a Pakistan-born paper sculptor who now calls Adelaide home is using this delicate material to carve narratives of moral and psychological truths.

Sleepless in Goodwood

Women artists have often come up with creative ways of combining family and work. Curator and artist Sarah Northcott found new directions in her kitchen studio – and inspiration in a TV documentary she watched one sleepless early morning.

Becoming Invisible: ‘Something happens when you turn 50’

Margaret Ambridge’s bravura exhibition of charcoal portraits of girls and women is just the tip of the iceberg of more than a hundred conversations with women about beauty, ageing and the seeming inevitability of becoming invisible.

‘This is my craft, this is my love, this is my meaning of life’

In Florence, Georgina Mills trained in the exacting techniques of neo-classical figurative sculpture. Now, in Re-framing, she’s striving to revitalise figurative sculpture’s relationship to the contemporary art scene in Australia.

Night and Day: A creative meeting of minds

An unsent fan letter, the discovery of a 30-year-old magazine in a dusty archive of craft journals in Mount Isa, and a final creative meeting of minds lie behind the exhibition of celebrated ceramicist Petrus Spronk at The Main Gallery in Halifax Street.